New camera lens!!

I had been having camera trouble for the past couple weeks. The shutter on my camera kept locking up every time I tried to shoot long distance. I had no idea what was wrong and I was really hoping it wasn't something with the actual camera its self.

Upon taking my camera into Lawrence Photo they informed me that it was merely the setting I was shooting on, but when they took the camera outside for a test shoot they quickly encountered the same problems I was having. Its not very reassuring to have a worker at Lawrence Photo tell you they have never had that problem before and they don't know what wrong. Ahhhhh!

Since I only had one lens I was shooting with I asked if they would test another lens on my camera body to see if it was the lens causing problems.

Thankfully they didn't have any problems once they switched lenses.

I took my broken lens home but things just seemed to get worse. I had been able to shoot close up without any problem but then my lens started having focusing problems close up too :(.

After receiving a slightly unexpected financial blessing I was able to go back to Lawrence today and buy a new lens. I even got to upgrade from what I was shooting with before :).

After talking with the people there today we realized I had probably been shooting with a lens that had problems since I first got it. I bought it used so I guess that is to be expected. It was slightly funny to see how a lens should normally work and how mine wasn't doing those things.

So excited to use my new lens and see how a properly working lens is suppose to shoot. :)